Timmy was a little five year old boy that his Mom loved very much and,
> being a worrier, she was concerned about him walking to school when he
> started Kindergarten. She walked him to school the couple of days but
when
> he came home one day, he told his mother that he did not want her
walking
> him to school everyday. He wanted to be like the "big boys." He
protested
> loudly, so she had an idea of how to handle it. She asked a neighbor,
Mrs.
> Goodnest, if she would surreptitiously follow her son to school, at a
> distance behind him that he would not likely notice, but close enough
to
> keep a watch on him.
>
> Mrs. Goodnest said that since she was up early with her toddler
anyway,
> it would be a good way for them to get some exercise as well so she
> agreed.
>
> The next school day, Mrs. Goodnest and her little girl, Marcy, set out
> following behind Timmy as he walked to school with another neighbor
boy
> he knew. She did this for the whole week.
>
> As the boys walked and chatted, kicking stones and twigs, the little
> friend of Timmy noticed that this same lady was following them as she
> seemed to do every day all week. Finally, he said to Timmy, "Have you
> noticed that lady following us all week? Do you know her?"
>
> Timmy nonchalantly replied, "Yea, I know who she is." The little
friend
> said, "Well who is she?" "That's just Shirley Goodnest" Timmy said.
>
> "Shirley Goodnest? Who the heck is she and why is she following us?"
>
> "Well," Timmy explained, "every night my Mom makes me say the 23rd
> Psalm with my prayers cuz she worries about me so much. And in it, the
> prayer psalm says, "Shirley Goodnest and Marcy shall follow me all the
> days of my life." so I guess I'll just have to get used to it.